Google Buys Company Whose Software Turns Old PCs Into Chromebooks

This week Google “quietly acquired a company called Neverware Inc. that sells software to transform old personal computers and Macs into Chromebook devices,” reports SiliconANGLE: The acquisition was announced by Neverware on Twitter, and Google later confirmed the news in a statement. Google had taken part in the company’s Series B funding round three years ago. Neverware’s software is called CloudReady OS, and though it’s primarily aimed at schools and enterprises that want to transform fleets of machines into Chromebooks, there’s also a free Home edition that anyone can use… Google’s plan is to make CloudReady an official product. “We can confirm that the Neverware team is joining the Google Chrome OS team,” Google said in a statement.